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Heli-Golf Takes Flight in South Africa

December 3, 2009

To the long list of hardships endured by inhabitants of the African continent, you can now add the difficulty of finding errant tee shots off of the 1,400 foot high tee box at Legend Golf & Safari Resort in South Africa.  That’s right, it’s about a quarter mile of vertical drop and over 600 yards [...]

Fred Astaire’s Metal Spikes

December 1, 2009

Fred Astaire was a dancer and a golfer, but perhaps no one before or since has blended the two disciplines as seamlessly as the master does in this clip.  It’s a good thing soft spikes weren’t around yet, because this routine just wouldn’t be the same.  Looks to be from the 1930’s or ’40s but [...]